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Common Core causes concerns

Published: Monday, September 16, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.

Last Modified: Monday, September 16, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.

The Common Core curriculum has been adopted now in 45 states including Louisiana. The Obama administration claims this curriculum is “voluntary.” “Voluntary” means that the state gets cut off from federal funding if it doesn’t adopt the standards.

For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Common Core curriculum, it is created in the private sector but pushed onto the states by the federal government. This is a government educational program for children from the cradle through college. It involves all subjects and grades, private and public schools. Children and parents’ personal data is collected for the government without parents’ knowledge and consent.

The curriculum has been criticized for being clearly biased to a liberal perspective. Common Core is not about education; it is about indoctrinating the children. The government curriculum is unconstitutional. It violates the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which established the principle that the power to oversee education belongs to the states, not big government. The education of the children should be locally controlled. The states should be able to adopt curricula of their choice without the threat or fear of losing federal money.

Parents and grandparents of school-age children should be concerned. The government is trying to indoctrinate children into one way of thinking, their way of thinking. They want our teachers to teach the children that the government is their best friend and not their enemy. All schools should teach the children how to think but never what to think.

Please contact your congressman to investigate this curriculum. The true intent of Common Core means getting behind the mask of innocent children, not their test scores. The government is trying to sell this new way of education as hope and change to America. This is just another way to keep parents in the dark and our children brainwashed. Nothing is as vital to the government as control of young minds.

This has been tried over and over throughout history, but it never worked. This is considered educational tyranny. Teachers are forced to redo lessons to teach a curriculum that has yet to be proven accurate and effective. Faith, God and prayers are needed back in our schools. Separation of church and state will also be the ruination of this country. Big government never works. God bless America.

<p>The Common Core curriculum has been adopted now in 45 states including Louisiana. The Obama administration claims this curriculum is “voluntary.” “Voluntary” means that the state gets cut off from federal funding if it doesn't adopt the standards.</p><p>For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Common Core curriculum, it is created in the private sector but pushed onto the states by the federal government. This is a government educational program for children from the cradle through college. It involves all subjects and grades, private and public schools. Children and parents' personal data is collected for the government without parents' knowledge and consent.</p><p>The curriculum has been criticized for being clearly biased to a liberal perspective. Common Core is not about education; it is about indoctrinating the children. The government curriculum is unconstitutional. It violates the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which established the principle that the power to oversee education belongs to the states, not big government. The education of the children should be locally controlled. The states should be able to adopt curricula of their choice without the threat or fear of losing federal money.</p><p>Parents and grandparents of school-age children should be concerned. The government is trying to indoctrinate children into one way of thinking, their way of thinking. They want our teachers to teach the children that the government is their best friend and not their enemy. All schools should teach the children how to think but never what to think. </p><p>Please contact your congressman to investigate this curriculum. The true intent of Common Core means getting behind the mask of innocent children, not their test scores. The government is trying to sell this new way of education as hope and change to America. This is just another way to keep parents in the dark and our children brainwashed. Nothing is as vital to the government as control of young minds.</p><p>This has been tried over and over throughout history, but it never worked. This is considered educational tyranny. Teachers are forced to redo lessons to teach a curriculum that has yet to be proven accurate and effective. Faith, God and prayers are needed back in our schools. Separation of church and state will also be the ruination of this country. Big government never works. God bless America.</p><p>Judy LeBoeuf</p><p>Houma</p>